Madrid-based international architecture firm A-cero, under the direction of principal Joaquín Torres, has recently won the architectural competition for an academic center that researches renewable energy sources. The building that blends in with the surrounding landscape aims to reach highest goals in sustainable architecture. The international competition was…

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of ACADIA awards for excellence. Inaugurated in 1998, the ACADIA Award of Excellence is one of the highest awards that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing. It represents recognition, by colleagues and peers worldwide, of…

  The Cooper Union Student Eco Initiative is looking for designers across the world who have an opinion on the current trend of green design.  They are collecting responses from professionals, students, and the population at large to incorporate into their first public work. The initiative hopes to use the…

Students of the University of Cincinnati are participating in a rather unusual competition: designs from their studio ‘Extreme Environments’ which explored chances and challenges of underwater architecture were submitted to France’s Archipelaego competition in an effort to win the Jacques Rougerie Architecture of the Sea Award.

Two architecture students have been awarded the Australian 2008 COLORBOND® steel Biennale Prize in recognition of the quality of their architecture designs. Daniel Griffin (RMIT University) and Jade Myers (University of Queensland) shared the $8,000 prize. Australian Institute of…

Haifa, Israel (June 2, 2008)—The Technion, the oldest university in Israel, awarded an honorary doctorate to architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the winning masterplan for the World Trade Center in New York. Mr. Libeskind accepted this prestigious honor and delivered a lecture ‘Breaking Ground’ to over 700 architecture students, faculty…